Script & Style

Enhance Visitor Experience By Creative 404 Page

2009-07-06T14:12:15Z

404 error pages on a website are the most underestimated. But a well-designed error page can significantly enhance the experience of the website visitors. In this article, we are including 15 creative 404 pages which we have found after doing a extensive research of over thousands of websites.

Globalization vs Localization Website Design

2009-07-06T13:53:44Z

Designer out there must have faced a problem that your design got rejected sometime. I want to discuss one of the reason.

The reason is because we always got inspired by the globalization designs. What I mean by globalization design?

What about localization design?

Lets discuss it in more details.

jQuery slidetoggle() with Fading

2009-07-06T13:51:55Z

The jquery slidetoggle() is great, but one thing I always thought it was missing is some opacity fading in the sliding animation.

Inspired Interview: Mills of UsTwo - The Studio of Dreams

2009-07-06T01:18:49Z

Well either you know Mills™ as the man behind the ever fresh and popular MouthOff iPhone app, either as the co-owner of ustwo™ the studio of dreams™,

MyInkTrail: Best of the Design Community June 2009

2009-07-06T01:16:13Z

A roundup of the best articles, tutorials, compilations, freebies and sites as offered up by the design community from the month of June.

Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora

2009-07-06T01:15:34Z

This is important information for using the HTML5 video tag and supporting the widest array of browsers possible.

PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to’s

2009-07-06T01:12:11Z

Though many programmers and developers may be implementing PHP in their websites, the issue of PHP security is often overlooked when building a site. Insecure coding is rather common in PHP due to the fact that it’s such a forgiving language that will often “work” even when there are a few loose ends in the coding.

Stopping the CSS Positioning Panic

2009-07-04T13:24:05Z

A crystal clear and simple explanation for CSS positioning.

Enhancing Your Site with WebKit

2009-07-04T13:22:17Z

WebKit is an open source browser engine. Apple uses WebKit in Safari, Mail, and other applications. Google’s Chrome browser, along with the S60 browser and the iPhone browser, is also built on WebKit. Some of the cool features of WebKit is transitions and transforms. With purely CSS you can create stunning animations. Your site will still work in other browsers, but the users with WebKit browsers will just get a slightly better experience.

The Web Designer Declaration of Independence

2009-07-04T13:21:00Z

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that creativity exists in all designers, and they are endowed by Common Sense and the W3C certain rights, that among those are Web Standards, Sanity, and Creative Commons.

jQuery - The Easy Way to Navigate

2009-07-04T13:19:19Z

Very interesting collection of 15 different solutions to navigate through websites with the JavaScript-Framework “jQuery”!

CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

2009-07-04T13:16:48Z

I’ve received multiple requests for simpler CSS tutorials that teach the tricky fundamentals. This will serve as the first entry in a series that will receive new additions sporadically each month. Today, we’ll be reviewing the overflow: hidden, and clearfix tricks to force a parent div to contains its children.

iWebKit - Make a Quality iPhone Website or Webapp

2009-07-03T11:43:25Z

Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes and is based on an LGPL license. In the first 4 months of it’s existance the pack has greatly evolved from a basic idea to a project that has reached worldwide fame!

Scrolling Background Effect Explained

2009-07-03T11:43:24Z

The technique is actually a lot simpler than it looks, it’s based around scrolling a very tall gradient image behind some transparent PNG images. The header image (with our logo, strapline and the laptop) has a transparent background and solid text, while the main page is actually an image with the heading text as transparent cut outs.

Indexed Dropdown with jQuery | devness

2009-07-03T04:16:51Z

Did you note how difficult is to deal with highly populated dropdowns? More than 50 elements can be a real pain… Can we do something about it -specially when this “highly populated dropdown” is necessary-? Thanks to JavaScript/jQuery the answer is a big yes.

Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today

2009-07-03T04:16:50Z

There have been many changes to the HTML 5 landscape since my colleague, Lachlan Hunt’s 2007 article on A List Apart, A Preview of HTML 5. Let’s see what’s happening in the world of HTML 5.

Count the Words in a TextArea or Input with jQuery

2009-07-03T04:04:37Z

This post shows how to get a word count from an HTML textarea or text input using jQuery and display it on the page. The word count is updated as the user types. Examples included.

Creating Rounded Corners (The Deviant Art Way)

2009-07-03T04:03:47Z

Exploring a new rounded cornered technique with no images and 100% cross-browser.

Up The Moo Herd I: Playing Fetch

2009-07-03T04:02:00Z

In this first part of the “Up the Moo Herd: MooTools Tips and Tricks” series, we’re going to talk about the fetcher functions and methods. These are the most used functions and methods in MooTools, and mastering them is essential for controlling the DOM.

JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It

2009-07-02T18:14:48Z

Many sites are sharing data using JSON in addition to RSS feeds nowadays, and with good reason: JSON feeds can be loaded asynchronously much more easily than XML/RSS.

This article will cover the following:

* What is JSON?
* Why does JSON matter?
* How do we load JSON into a project?

We’ll also use our newfound skills with JSON at the end of this project to build a quick app that loads photos from Flickr without requiring a page refresh.